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"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
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"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."
"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"
"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."
"We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?"
"The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven."
"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."
"This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven."
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"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
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